worker's house

Semi-detached three-bay single-storey house with attic, built c.1870, with return. Set back from street. Pitched slate roof with terracotta ridge tiles, rendered chimneystack, cast-iron rainwater goods, timber bargeboards with finial to gable end and dormer attic window, catslide roof to return. Render removed from façade to reveal random coursed limestone wall. Roughcast render side and rear elevations. Timber sash windows with yellow brick flat-arched openings and tooled stone sills, circular pivot window with yellow brick surround to attic. Square-headed door opening with yellow brick flat arch, timber battened door with pitched canopy with decorative timber bargeboards and finial.

This cottage forms part of an important and attractive group of structures built as workers' houses for the Birr Castle demesne. Notable elements include the finely carved door canopy and the decorative circular pivot window. The cottage, with its aesthetically pleasing design, was part of a larger scheme which won a Royal Agricultural Society gold medal for design in the 1870s. The picturesque quality of these cottages makes them an integral part of a changing streetscape.